Utopian pulse : flares in the darkroom ; [... published in conjunction with the exhibition "Utopian Pulse - Flares in the Darkroom" at Secession, Vienna, from 10 September to 2 November 2014, and a follow-up exhibition at Württembergischer Kunstverein, S

The politics of utopia have produced a rich and varied literature, including the work of St. Simon, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, among many others. Utopian Pulse explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and asks how art can engage with and contribute to utopian ideas. This book will be published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will include artwork from the exhibition itself. The contributors to Utopian Pulse invoke utopia as an alternative to the status quo, a recognition of something missing that opens up many imaginative possibilities. International artistic researchers, artists, and artists-curators contribute diverse examples of what these possibilities may be from their own artistic practice. More than just a theoretical treatise, this photographic and illustrative book, featuring color pages throughout, is a beautifully designed companion to the series of works and projects that Utopian Pulse documents. This book will serve not only as a contribution to the existing literature on utopia and utopian politics, but also as an inspiration to artists seeking to realize these ideas through their work. This...illustrated Book Brings Together A Range Of International Artists And Art Theorists To Explore And Create Practices Ignited By A Utopian Impulse. Grounded In The Idea That Utopian Imaginations Are Needed To Organise Society Differently, The Book Explores How Art Practice Engaged In The Present Can Give Light To Necessarily Incomplete Alternative Futures.--back Cover. Foreword / Ines Doujak And Oliver Ressler -- Fluchthilfe & Du? / Katarzyna Winiecka -- Driven Into Conflict By Utopia / Antke Engel -- Salon Fluchthilfe; Unthinking Utopia: Borderlessness As Method / Zanny Begg -- The World Is Flooding / Oreet Ashery -- Out Of The Salon: Female Counter-spaces, Anti-colonial Struggles And Transversal Politics. / Sophie Schasiepen -- Salon Public Happiness / Christoph Schäfer -- Please Take Generously / Wealth Of Negations -- Self-insufficiency / Matthew Hyland -- Salon Orrizonti Occupati, Occupied Horizons / Bert Theis -- Known Nowheres: Some Short Thoughts On Going Beyond / Marina Vishmidt -- Mogoknasional / Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited -- A Preview Of The Future: Workers' Control In The Context Of A Global Systemic Crisis / Dario Azzellini And Oliver Ressler -- Salons, The Utopian Salon And Substantial Shops / Alice Creischer -- B.a.n.g. / Etcétera -- Salon Dadada / And And And -- Salon-e-girdbad, Salon Of The Whirlwind / Mariam Ghani -- Taksim Square, June 2013 / Halil Altindere -- Queering Utopia In The Darkroom / Fernanda Nogueira -- Cuartos De Utopía, Wittgenstein And The Gypsies / Pedro G. Romero, Maquina P.h. -- El Espacio Del Inmigrante / Daniela Ortiz -- Salón De Belleza / Miguel A. López -- A Mask Is Always Active / Ines Doujak And John Barker -- Salon Klimbim / Ines Doujak And Fahim Amir. Ines Doujak & Oliver Ressler (eds.). Published On The Occasion Of The Exhibition Utopian Pulse, Flares In The Darkroom At Secession, Vienna (september 10-november 2, 2014) And Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (june 29-august 16, 2015). Includes Bibliographical References. Cover Contents Foreword - Ines Doujak and Oliver Ressler Urgent Alternatives: Utopian Moments Fluchthilfe & Du? - Katarzyna Winiecka Driven into Conflict by Utopia - Antke Engel Salon Fluchthilfe / Unthinking Utopia - Zanny Begg The World is Flooding - Oreet Ashery Out of the Salon - Femal Counter-spaces, Anti-Colonial Struggles and Transversal Politics - Sophie Schasiepen Salon Public Happiness - Christoph Shafer Please Take Generously - Wealth of Negations Self-Insufficiency - Matthew Hyland Salon Orrizonti Occupati / Occupied Horizons - Bert Theis Known Nowheres: Some Short Thoughts on Going Beyond - Marina Vishmidt MogokNasional - Nobodycorp. Internationale Unlimited A Preview of the Future: Workers' Control in the Context of a Global Systemic Crisis - Dario Azzellini and Oliver Ressler Salons, the Utopian Salon and Substantial Shops - Alice Creischer B.A.N.G. - Etcétera Salon DADADA - AND AND AND Salon-e-Girdbad / Salon of the Whirlwind - Mariam Ghani Taksim Square, June 2013 - Halil Altindere Queering Utopia in the Darkroom - Fernanda Nogueira Cuartos de Utopía / Wittgenstein and the Gypsies - Pedro G. Romero / Maquina P.H. El Espacio del Inmigrante - Daniela Ortiz Salón de Belleza - Miguel A. López A Mask is Always Active - Ines Doujak and John Barker Salon Klimbim - Ines Doujak and Fahim Amir Biographies Imprint The politics of Utopia have already produced a rich and varied literature - St. Simon, Buber, Bloch, and many others. Utopian Pulse explores this tradition from the perspective of art practice and asks how we can engage with and contribute to it. This book will be published alongside an exhibition of the same name and will include artwork from the exhibition itself. The work's contributors invoke Utopia as an always incomplete alternative and a recognition of something missing, which opens up the possibility of asserting something which is not yet but will be. International artistic researchers, artists and artist-curators contribute different modes of engagement which they are already constituting through their own practice. More than just a theoretical treatise, this book is an overview of a series of works and projects that are brought to life and which the book seeks to document. This book will serve not only as a contribution to the existing literature on Utopia and Utopian politics, but also as an inspiration to artists seeking to realise these ideas through their work.